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The Edinburgh International Film Festival has tapped Picturehouse Entertainment head of acquisitions Paul Ridd as its new director.
Ridd will join in December. His first festival, the event’s 77th anniversary, will take place in August 2024, with specific dates to be announced.
The festival returned for its 76th edition earlier this year following financial difficulties. It was led by Kate Taylor, who took over from Kristy Matheson who became the new director of the BFI London Film Festival. Taylor did not apply for the position again.
As director, Ridd will be responsible for creating, developing and running the business, implementing the fundraising strategy, and delivering a budget and a multi-year plan for the festival. In addition, he will work collaboratively with the board to lead the organization’s overall strategic direction and sustainability, develop the strategy and vision and build a new and dynamic team.
During Ridd’s tenure at Picturehouse,...
Ridd will join in December. His first festival, the event’s 77th anniversary, will take place in August 2024, with specific dates to be announced.
The festival returned for its 76th edition earlier this year following financial difficulties. It was led by Kate Taylor, who took over from Kristy Matheson who became the new director of the BFI London Film Festival. Taylor did not apply for the position again.
As director, Ridd will be responsible for creating, developing and running the business, implementing the fundraising strategy, and delivering a budget and a multi-year plan for the festival. In addition, he will work collaboratively with the board to lead the organization’s overall strategic direction and sustainability, develop the strategy and vision and build a new and dynamic team.
During Ridd’s tenure at Picturehouse,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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Paul Ridd, a long-term acquisitions exec at Picturehouse Cinemas, has been named director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff).
Ridd joins Edinburgh in December from his current role as head of acquisitions at Picturehouse. His first edition — the festival’s 77th anniversary — will take place in August 2024. He takes over from Kate Taylor, who quietly left the festival after leading this year’s smaller, one-off edition as part of the city’s wider cultural festival.
As director, Ridd will be responsible for creating, developing, and running the business, implementing the fundraising strategy, and delivering a budget and a multi-year plan for the festival. In addition, he will work collaboratively with the board to lead the organization’s overall strategic direction and sustainability, develop the strategy and vision, and build a new team.
Picturehouse releases during Ridd’s time at the company included Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country, Audrey Diwan’s Happening,...
Ridd joins Edinburgh in December from his current role as head of acquisitions at Picturehouse. His first edition — the festival’s 77th anniversary — will take place in August 2024. He takes over from Kate Taylor, who quietly left the festival after leading this year’s smaller, one-off edition as part of the city’s wider cultural festival.
As director, Ridd will be responsible for creating, developing, and running the business, implementing the fundraising strategy, and delivering a budget and a multi-year plan for the festival. In addition, he will work collaboratively with the board to lead the organization’s overall strategic direction and sustainability, develop the strategy and vision, and build a new team.
Picturehouse releases during Ridd’s time at the company included Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country, Audrey Diwan’s Happening,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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Ridd, presently head of acquisitions at Picturehouse Entertainment, will take up the role in December.
Paul Ridd, head of acquisitions at UK distributor Picturehouse Entertainment, has been named festival director of Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff).
Ridd will be responsible for creating, developing and running the business, implementing the fundraising strategy, and delivering a budget and a multi-year plan for the festival.
In addition, the fesival said he will work collaboratively with the board to lead the organisation’s overall strategic direction and sustainability, develop the strategy and vision and build the wider team.
“I am beyond thrilled to be...
Paul Ridd, head of acquisitions at UK distributor Picturehouse Entertainment, has been named festival director of Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff).
Ridd will be responsible for creating, developing and running the business, implementing the fundraising strategy, and delivering a budget and a multi-year plan for the festival.
In addition, the fesival said he will work collaboratively with the board to lead the organisation’s overall strategic direction and sustainability, develop the strategy and vision and build the wider team.
“I am beyond thrilled to be...
- 11/15/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
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Anna Higgs is chair of the Bafta film committee and managing director of talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associate
Anna Higgs, chair of the Bafta film committee and managing director of talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associate, will be the keynote speaker at Film London’s Production Finance Market (Pfm), which runs October 10-11 as part of the BFI London Film Festival’s Industry strand.
The two-day film financing event will take place at London’s The Thistle hotel with 60 projects and 50 financiers expected to attend.
Higgs, who was recently re-elected Bafta chair, will sit down for an interview with Film London...
Anna Higgs, chair of the Bafta film committee and managing director of talent agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associate, will be the keynote speaker at Film London’s Production Finance Market (Pfm), which runs October 10-11 as part of the BFI London Film Festival’s Industry strand.
The two-day film financing event will take place at London’s The Thistle hotel with 60 projects and 50 financiers expected to attend.
Higgs, who was recently re-elected Bafta chair, will sit down for an interview with Film London...
- 10/2/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
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“A lot of very impressive people have led this festival and what connects them is a love for movies and culture and what that can achieve,” Kristy Matheson told Deadline of her new job as Director of the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival.
“That has left a great stamp on this festival, and this is something I hope to continue.”
Matheson has her first go at navigating that legacy next week as the London Film Festival (Lff) opens with the International Premiere of Emerald Fennell’s sophomore feature Saltburn, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, and Rosamund Pike.
Running October 4-15, Lff will feature 29 World Premieres, seven International Premieres, and 30 European Premieres. Eye-grabbing debuts set for London include Jeymes Samuel’s The Book of Clarence, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Lakeith Stanfield, and David Oyelowo, and The Kitchen by Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya, which closes the festival.
Other highly-anticipated titles...
“That has left a great stamp on this festival, and this is something I hope to continue.”
Matheson has her first go at navigating that legacy next week as the London Film Festival (Lff) opens with the International Premiere of Emerald Fennell’s sophomore feature Saltburn, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, and Rosamund Pike.
Running October 4-15, Lff will feature 29 World Premieres, seven International Premieres, and 30 European Premieres. Eye-grabbing debuts set for London include Jeymes Samuel’s The Book of Clarence, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Lakeith Stanfield, and David Oyelowo, and The Kitchen by Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya, which closes the festival.
Other highly-anticipated titles...
- 9/29/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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The BFI London Film Festival will present five feature films and documentaries by UK-based filmmakers at its fourth annual Works-in-Progress showcase. Scroll down for the lineup.
The showcase, which forms part of the festival’s industry program, will be an in-person event at Picturehouse Central where filmmakers will screen extracts from their projects for an invited audience of international buyers and festival programmers.
The projects are either in production or post-production. An online package with the projects will also be available online for one week from October 7 through a secure platform to a wider pool of invited international industry professionals.
Last year, two projects from the 2021 in-progress lineup were screened during the Lff. The pics were Pretty Red Dress, written and directed by Dionne Edwards, and Medusa Deluxe, written and directed by Thomas Hardiman. This year, Girl written and directed by Adura Onashile, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and will screen at Lff,...
The showcase, which forms part of the festival’s industry program, will be an in-person event at Picturehouse Central where filmmakers will screen extracts from their projects for an invited audience of international buyers and festival programmers.
The projects are either in production or post-production. An online package with the projects will also be available online for one week from October 7 through a secure platform to a wider pool of invited international industry professionals.
Last year, two projects from the 2021 in-progress lineup were screened during the Lff. The pics were Pretty Red Dress, written and directed by Dionne Edwards, and Medusa Deluxe, written and directed by Thomas Hardiman. This year, Girl written and directed by Adura Onashile, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and will screen at Lff,...
- 9/26/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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Keenly anticipated sequel “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” will have its world premiere at the 67th BFI London Film Festival.
From the Oscar and BAFTA-winning studio Aardman and Oscar and BAFTA-nominated director Sam Fell, the film is the sequel to “Chicken Run” (2000), the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time.
In the film, having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat.
The voice cast includes Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsey, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Ferguson, David Bradley, Jane Horrocks, Romesh Ranganathan, Daniel Mays, Josie Sedgwick-Davies and Nick Mohammed.
The film will receive its world premiere on Oct.
From the Oscar and BAFTA-winning studio Aardman and Oscar and BAFTA-nominated director Sam Fell, the film is the sequel to “Chicken Run” (2000), the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time.
In the film, having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat.
The voice cast includes Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsey, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Ferguson, David Bradley, Jane Horrocks, Romesh Ranganathan, Daniel Mays, Josie Sedgwick-Davies and Nick Mohammed.
The film will receive its world premiere on Oct.
- 8/23/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the long-awaited sequel to Aardman’s 2000 smash hit Chicken Run — still the most successful stop-motion animated feature of all time almost quarter of a century later — is set to get its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.
The film, which The Hollywood Reporter first broke news of back in 2018 and was later swooped upon by Netflix, comes from Oscar and BAFTA-nominated director Sam Fell (ParaNorman, Flushed Away), and will bow on Oct. 14 at London’s Royal Festival Hall, with simultaneous preview screenings at sites around the U.K.
With the London Film Festival having last year screened the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which went on to claim the Oscar for best animated feature, Academy favorites Aardman should be hoping that the festival proves to be a similarly successful springboard (while the original Chicken Run missed out on the 2001 awards,...
The film, which The Hollywood Reporter first broke news of back in 2018 and was later swooped upon by Netflix, comes from Oscar and BAFTA-nominated director Sam Fell (ParaNorman, Flushed Away), and will bow on Oct. 14 at London’s Royal Festival Hall, with simultaneous preview screenings at sites around the U.K.
With the London Film Festival having last year screened the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which went on to claim the Oscar for best animated feature, Academy favorites Aardman should be hoping that the festival proves to be a similarly successful springboard (while the original Chicken Run missed out on the 2001 awards,...
- 8/23/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Gala screening will play at Southbank Centre and venues around UK.
Aardman animated feature Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget will have its world premiere as a Gala screening on Saturday, October 14 at the 67th BFI London Film Festival (Lff).
The stop-motion sequel will play at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank Centre; and simultaneously at multiple UK cinemas.
Dawn Of The Nugget then debuts globally on Netflix on December 15.
Following the death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm in the first film, Dawn Of The Nugget sees Ginger and Rocky seemingly happy on an island sanctuary with their...
Aardman animated feature Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget will have its world premiere as a Gala screening on Saturday, October 14 at the 67th BFI London Film Festival (Lff).
The stop-motion sequel will play at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank Centre; and simultaneously at multiple UK cinemas.
Dawn Of The Nugget then debuts globally on Netflix on December 15.
Following the death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm in the first film, Dawn Of The Nugget sees Ginger and Rocky seemingly happy on an island sanctuary with their...
- 8/23/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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Film images were projected onto public buildings across Edinburgh on Monday (October 31) night.
Images from classic films including Gregory’s Girl, The Wizard Of Oz, It’s A Wonderful Life, The Illusionist and Moonlight were projected onto buildings across Edinburgh on Monday (October 31) night, as part of a campaign to save the Filmhouse cinemas and the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), after parent charity, the Centre for the Moving Image, folded at the start of October.
The projections were organised by filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was Eiff artistic director from 1996-7, and form part of a public staff and filmmaker campaign...
Images from classic films including Gregory’s Girl, The Wizard Of Oz, It’s A Wonderful Life, The Illusionist and Moonlight were projected onto buildings across Edinburgh on Monday (October 31) night, as part of a campaign to save the Filmhouse cinemas and the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), after parent charity, the Centre for the Moving Image, folded at the start of October.
The projections were organised by filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was Eiff artistic director from 1996-7, and form part of a public staff and filmmaker campaign...
- 11/1/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
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Images from classic and contemporary films were beamed onto some of Edinburgh’s most famous locations Monday evening as part of a growing campaign to save the city’s Filmhouse cinema and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, one of the world’s longest continuously running film festivals.
In October, the trustees in charge of the Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), the charity which runs the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, and Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen, appointed administrators.
A statement from the Cmi said a “perfect storm” of rising costs and falling admissions numbers due to the pandemic had been exacerbated by the current cost of living crisis. All three institutions ceased trading immediately.
Since then, a local campaign titled Save The Filmhouse comprised of former Filmhouse employees, filmmakers, and patrons has ballooned into a larger movement with a petition to save the organizations attracting more than 23,000 signatures.
In October, the trustees in charge of the Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), the charity which runs the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, and Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen, appointed administrators.
A statement from the Cmi said a “perfect storm” of rising costs and falling admissions numbers due to the pandemic had been exacerbated by the current cost of living crisis. All three institutions ceased trading immediately.
Since then, a local campaign titled Save The Filmhouse comprised of former Filmhouse employees, filmmakers, and patrons has ballooned into a larger movement with a petition to save the organizations attracting more than 23,000 signatures.
- 11/1/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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